The Bread King!

Sitting down to a well-prepared, savory meal is a joy, isn’t it? After a day when I’ve been active and not taken time to eat, I am ready for dinner! What must it be like to be desperately hungry, living on the edge day after day? If a person is that hungry, bread becomes awfully important! In John’s Gospel, we read of about dinner served at day’s end at Jesus’ direction. John tells us that several thousand people had gathered to hear Him speak and as the evening was settling, the Lord asked Philip where they could get bread to feed the crowd. His incredulous reply -“Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them!” (John 6:7, NLT) Jesus already had a plan. A boy’s lunch was found. He blessed it and miraculously feed 5000 men and others with it, then collected 12 baskets of leftovers!

The people were excited. No more struggle to find food, no more dealing with famines, no more wondering about bread! They were so enthused the Bible says, “they were ready to force him to be their king." (John 6:15, NLT) The Bread King! The first ever welfare state!

The next day when some of them found Jesus, He told them that He wasn’t around just to make them dinner. “I tell you the truth, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you understood the miraculous signs. … I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. … I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.” (John 6:26,35,51, NLT)

Why are you a Christian?
Why do you follow Jesus?
Are you just looking for a Bread King?

Disciple, the ever-present temptation is to simply want a God who will make our life easier for us, here and now. What’s wrong with that? Well, His mission is is greater than filling our bellies and making us happy on this earth. Yes, of course, He cares about our needs, but He is really our Life! A careful meditation on the 6th chapter of John reveals that Jesus Christ will feed us in ways that have nothing to do with our stomachs and bread! He will satisfy our spirit hunger, feeding us with Himself. He, Himself, was fed in this way by the Presence of His Father. When His disciples brought Him lunch one day at Jacob’s well, He did not eat. He told them, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”… My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work." (John 4:32,34, NLT)

If we only love what Jesus does for us, but fail to love Jesus Christ Himself, we are just like those that He fed dinner. He wants us to love Him! Go deeper in spiritual things, friend. Go beyond having a religion that you hope will help life to work better for you. Seek a relationship with the Lord that is deep, intimate, and soul-satisfying; something that few who claim to be ‘Christian’ really understand.

And this is His promise: "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” (John 6:57-58, NKJV)

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Hungry, I come to You
For I know You satisfy.
I am empty,
But I know Your love
Does not run dry.
And so I wait for You,
So I wait for You.

I'm falling on my knees
Offering all of me.
Jesus, You're all
This heart is living for.

Hungry
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Jerry D. Scott - Sr. Pastor
WASHINGTON ASSEMBLY of GOD
33 Brass Castle Road - Washington, NJ 07882

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